Topic: found this out you guys might like it (Read 1964 times)

manitoba1073 · « **on:** November 18, 2007, 01:08:09 am »

Vipre · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2007, 01:14:54 am »

Nice, I'm definitely trying this out. Thanks

Beeblebrox · « **Reply #2 on:** November 18, 2007, 06:44:44 am »

I'm not sure what this is. Is it a video player like Real Player or WinAmp? Or are there actual internet TV stations that Miro would act as a television set for?

Vipre · « **Reply #3 on:** November 18, 2007, 02:50:36 pm »

Both. Lots of "stations" from real stations that do podcasts or release videos on their website to public domain movies and cartoons from the 30s, 40s and 50's. It also allows you to do searches on several video sharing sites like youtube and save the searches as channels.

Nemesis · « **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2007, 08:29:44 pm »

Miro used to be the Democracy Player but they changed the name. It is on the free software list under the old name.

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Watch Internet TV with Democracy Player

You've probably watched hundreds of tiny videos on websites. It's tedious. Democracy Player makes video on the internet way less frustrating and way more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of internet video, download videos, and watch them fullscreen, one after the other, all in one application. Internet video becomes internet TV. It's free and open for everyone to watch and to broadcast.

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Play Almost Anything

Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.

Beeblebrox · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2007, 03:42:58 am »

I wonder if it plays .mkv files.

IndyShark · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2007, 07:35:05 am »

Does it get live TV? I am not happy I can't watch the Colts play on Thanksgiving since my cable company does not carry the NFL network

Nemesis · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2007, 07:49:37 pm »

Quote from: Beeblebrox on November 20, 2007, 03:42:58 am

I wonder if it plays .mkv files.

What are .mkv files? I've never heard of them.

Darth Sidious · « **Reply #8 on:** November 21, 2007, 10:05:28 am »

Quote from: IKV Nemesis on November 20, 2007, 07:49:37 pm

Quote from: Beeblebrox on November 20, 2007, 03:42:58 am
I wonder if it plays .mkv files.

What are .mkv files? I've never heard of them.

Matroska video.

Nemesis · « **Reply #9 on:** November 21, 2007, 07:42:28 pm »

Quote from: Darth Sidious on November 21, 2007, 10:05:28 am

Quote from: IKV Nemesis on November 20, 2007, 07:49:37 pm
Quote from: Beeblebrox on November 20, 2007, 03:42:58 am
I wonder if it plays .mkv files.

What are .mkv files? I've never heard of them.

Matroska video.

I looked it up and found a few things including this.

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Formerly known as Democracy Player, Miro is partially funded through a Mozilla Foundation grant and developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation.

It also embeds VLC, a powerful open source multimedia player which gives it strong audio and video formats support including ASF, Windows Media Video, MP4, QuickTime, FLAC, AVI, MPEG-2, Theora, DivX, Xvid and Matroska among others. This support however is not extensive. For example, Matroska files distinguish for its ability to embed multiple audio and subtitle tracks in a single container. However there’s no way to change audio track or select a subtitle so far which is just sad. I was really hoping for it to be a silver bullet for the mess Internet delivered video is, but according to a forum discussion it may not be available until after 1.0 release. Read more

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